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| 2009 ~ DOUBLE OAK VINEYARDS & WINERY |
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The 24th harvest for Double Oak Vineyards
The 13th vintage for Double Oak Winery |
| Mountain Grown Fine Wine |
EVENTS & NEWS ~ MID AUTUMN 2009
EVENTS
Double Oak HARVEST OPEN HOUSE
Saturday, November 21, 1 - 5
Celebrating 24 Harvests and 13 Vintages!
Please Join Us
Help us celebrate our 24th Harvest and 13th Vintage!
Fine wine ~ Tasty food ~ Talented winemaker ~ Fine art ~ Creative artists
~ Enjoy tasting delicious Double Oak fine wines paired with savory gourmet hors d’oeuvres.
~ Tour the winery and vineyard with the winemaker Bob Hilsman.
~ Delight in fine art and meeting the artists.
~ Find fine gifts to give to your friends and family.
~ Stock up on Double Oak wine to share with your friends and family during the coming holiday season.
The price of admission to this Open House: a Double Oak logo wine glass, bought at the door ($5.00 / Wine Club: $4.50).
FINE WINE & DELICIOUS FOOD
~ Taste delicious Double Oak fine wine. Sample wine of several varietals & vintages: new and current releases, reserve wines and barrel samples.
~ Enjoy tasting savory gourmet hors d’oeuvres.
Special Triple Zin Wine Sale ~ One Day Only!
Delicious 2006, 2005 & 2004 Zinfandel Vintages!
Half-case 10% (Wine Club 20%) discount.
Full-case 20% (Wine Club 30%) discount.
We will mix.
Take home delicious wine at a great price!
FINE ART
Heather deViveiros ~ Landscape Paintings
Landscape and Florals with a Decorative Approach... Heather explores non-traditional ways of painting, working a lot in acrylic paints. As she tells it: “It is a combination of the grace I see in the lines of nature and my own inner emotional landscape. Realism is not the focus, but personal interpretation of the natural world, giving form to my sense of self and the multifaceted experience of just being alive. People have described my work as vivid, striking, a graphic folk-art approach to painting. Great influences have been Klimt, the Nabis, and the Japanese Edo period.” Heather is a local artist living with her family on the San Juan Ridge.
Sharon Lane ~ Landscape Painting
Plein air landscapes of the Sierra Foothills... Sharon works in oils and begins her paintings on location, often finishing them from photos in the studio. Her inspiration comes from the soul-fortifying natural beauty, both subtle and grand, found near her home in northern Nevada County, the Lakes district and Sierra Buttes, Lake Tahoe, the back meadow, views found driving up Highway 49, and occasional forays to Big Sur. She loves the California landscape from rolling hills of the Bay Area to Sierra peaks and feels blessed to have grown up camping and hiking at all altitudes in the Golden State! Her teacher locally is Phil Brown. Sharon also lives on the San Juan Ridge.
Jeannine Bourdeaux ~ Photography and Photographic Art
"My sense of sight gives me great pleasure; I am often moved by colors, shapes and forms in the world around me. I attempt to capture some of those feelings in the images I make." Jeannine enjoys traveling; her photographic subjects range from her local Sierra foothills to Paris, France. She also plays with Photoshop as a medium in itself, making collage, abstract, or surreal pictures. Her other motive for photography is the challenge it represents: to assert herself, meet people, and reveal something of herself to others.
For more information about Jeannine's photography and to see examples of her work, go to www.pbase.com/tappingseeker.
Gerald Davenport ~ DVD Memories
Your precious family video and photographic history...
Gerald's enterprise takes one's pictures and creates a moving slide show with transitions and music of choice, putting it all onto a keepsake DVD. Pictures can be from a digital source, real photographs and home videos. Individual projects are tailor-made depending on the theme: birthday, anniversary, wedding, etc. The DVD makes a great gift. "This is a great way way to cherish, relive, and preserve your precious memories!" Gerald has been in the creative arts (film, video, photography, music, graphic design, and writing) for over 20 years. At the Open House, he will showcase several of his DVD Memories projects.
For more information about DVD Memories, go to www.dvd-memories.com.
For more information about this Open House Celebration:
call Double Oak at 530-292-3235
or email <virginia@doubleoakwinery.com>.
In the Neighborhood on Saturday, 11/21 ~
Sweetland Pottery Open Studio Sale ~ 11-5
13694 Miller Rd. Nevada City, CA 95959
Just one road beyond Blind Shady.
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MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Double Oak Wine Tasting, Picnicking & Tours ~
February through December: Saturdays, 11-5, and by appointment.
We welcome your visits for complementary wine tasting and sales, picnicking, and tours of the vineyard ad winery.
Click here for more information about visiting Double Oak.
Double Oak Wine Club Trios & Sextets ~
February, May, August, & November.
Click here for more information about the Double Oak Wine Club.
Double Oak HARVEST OPEN HOUSE ~
Saturday, November 21, 1 ~ 5
Fine Wine, Fine Art, Fine Crafts
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DOUBLE OAK NEWS
In the Double Oak Landscape....
2009 ~ Our 37th year on this wonderful land!
One month into fall, a lovely time of transition from summer to winter.
The weather is comfortable round the clock. The vineyards and the surrounding woodlands are changing colors, lovely shades of yellows, oranges, and greens with a touch of russet. Acorns have been falling for weeks now, so plentiful this year! We see turkeys and deer enjoying them and woodpeckers storing them wherever they can. There are signs of the beginning of the deer mating season, with bushes and trees showing signs of bucks shining their horns.
By the end of October
there had been two rains: 1/4" in mid September and 4-5 inches in the 2nd week of October. This ended the fire season for the year and refreshed our landscape, washing dust off the trees and bushes and moistening the soil. The vineyard floor green again; the cover crop has resprouted with the first leaves of the clovers and blades of grass. The rustling breezes and pushy winds show that the pressure systems are changing. The nights are longer and cooler. The diurnal swing goes from a high of 70's to the high 30’s.
Come visit and enjoy this beauty at Double Oak! Relax with a picnic; take pleasure in this loveliness while enjoying your picnic meal and delicious Double Oak fine wine.
In the Double Oak Vineyards....
2009 ~ The 24th harvest for Double Oak Vineyards!
Harvest: the climax of ripening! At Double Oak the ripening time is long and slow, allowing the flavors and sugars to develop fully. Flavor (phenolic) ripeness is measured by taste and color. Sugar is measured by tasting and testing grape samples to determine the Brix (the measure for sugar). As the sugar creeps up to the 23 degree Brix range, we plan our harvest days.
For more than a month it was all about harvest, harvest, harvest!!!
We started September 28th, harvested throughout October and finished November 3rd. This pretty much followed our typical typical harvest dates. We began with the Chardonnay, followed by the new field of Cabernet Sauvignon in early October. We harvested the Zinfandel the day before the big storm on October 13, which was good since big bunches of tightly packed ripe Zin fare poorly after a big rain. (The Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon can stand up to rain being Bordeaux varietals.) Then we finally finished harvest with the Merlot on October 28, and the old field of Cabernet Sauvignon on November 3rd. Hurrah!
The fruit all looked beautiful and tasted great, all 22 tons of it! For the most part we had good harvest conditions. Temperatures were fine. There were no killing frosts. Most of the days were sunny. The big rain came after the Chardonnay and Zinfandel had been harvested. And we had wonderful crews of grape pickers: hard workers with good attitudes, mostly Double Oak fans and Wine Club members. We are grateful!
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In the Double Oak Winery...
2009 ~ The 13th vintage for Double Oak Winery!
This is the busiest time of the year at the Double Oak winery. The most intense winemaking happens at crush. When you walk near the winery buildings, delicious aromas of fermenting grapes fill the air. Chardonnay is fermenting in barrels inside the winery. Red wines are fermenting in tanks on the crushpad. When the reds have finished fermentation, they get pressed out and the wine goes into tanks to settle out a little before being moved to barrels for aging.
In the months preceding harvest, the 2007 vintage wines were bottled: the 2007 Zinfandel in August and the 2007 Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon in September. Of course they taste delicious! After several months of bottle aging, they will be released for sale.
For a complete list and description of currently available Double Oak wines, shipping and discount information, and for information about the Double Oak Wine Club, click here.
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At Double Oak we produce outstanding fine wine
from our nine acres of deeply rooted mountain vineyards.
We believe it’s all about balance and harmony with nature.
Expressing terroir is elemental for Double Oak winemaker, Bob.
We hope you can join us at our HARVEST OPEN HOUSE, November 21!
Wishing you a bountiful & beautiful Autumn,
Bob & Ginny Hilsman
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